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NASA announces that it cannot use the Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager. And Slitless Spectrograph is not currently available for scientific operations due to an error in the software earlier in the month.
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In a press release released yesterday, the agency said that the issue was discovered on the 15th of January.
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The day that a delay in communications within the device caused the flight software to stop working.
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Flight software is an essential component of any instrument operating in space since it handles various tasks on a particular spacecraft.
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Which includes its orientation communication data collection, as well as thermal control.
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NIRISS Flight software's timing out does not suggest that Webb is poised to spin off course or something else that's potentially dangerous.